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Tolullah Oni

Tolullah Oni

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Tolullah Oni, a public health physician and urban epidemiologist, is a clinical senior research associate at the University of Cambridge and Founder of UrbanBetter.

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  1. Rethinking Urban Health
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    Rethinking Urban Health

    Jul 5, 2021 Tolullah Oni urges policymakers to focus more on the environmental determinants of public health in cities.

  2. A Marshall Plan for Planetary Health
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    A Marshall Plan for Planetary Health

    Jul 24, 2020 Tolullah Oni proposes a new multilateral investment program aimed at promoting more sustainable urban development.

  3. Impact Investment’s Pandemic Challenge
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    Impact Investment’s Pandemic Challenge

    Apr 24, 2020 Tolullah Oni, et al. explain how elevating the asset class could mobilize urgently needed capital to improve global public health.

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    Tariff Man’s Risky Bet

    Carla Norrlöf

    In betting that the economic fallout from his sweeping new tariffs will be worth the gains in border security, US President Donald Trump is gambling with America’s long-term influence and prosperity. In the future, more countries will have even stronger reasons to try to reduce their reliance on the United States.

    thinks Donald Trump's trade policies will undermine the very goals they aim to achieve.
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    The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

    Melissa Parke calls for eliminating arsenals to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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    A Sputnik Moment for AI?

    Daron Acemoglu

    While America’s AI industry arguably needed shaking up, the news of a Chinese startup beating Big Tech at its own game raises some difficult questions. Fortunately, if US tech leaders and policymakers can take the right lessons from DeepSeek's success, we could all end up better for it.

    considers what an apparent Chinese breakthrough means for the US tech industry, and innovation more broadly.
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    Danish Media’s United Stand Against Big Tech

    Karen Rønde urges all publishers to bargain collectively to secure the fair compensation quality journalism requires.
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    East Asia Braces for Trump 2.0

    Takatoshi Ito warns America’s key regional allies to be prepared to make concessions to the new US administration.
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    Africa Needs Mineral Security, Too

    Daniel M. Franks & Rüya Perincek highlight the necessity of building local value chains tailored to the continent’s economic realities.
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    Mitigating AI’s Climate Costs

    Sherif Elsayed-Ali proposes ways to realize the technology’s potential while mitigating its massive carbon footprint.
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    What Does Trump 2.0 Mean for Venezuela?

    Moisés Naím thinks the Maduro regime’s fate – and the country’s future – will be largely shaped by US policymakers.
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    Does Globalization Have a Future?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. worries that we will end up with only harmful long-distance dependencies, rather than beneficial ones.

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